puja

How to use puja in a sentence

• A quarter of an hour before the evening meal every Hindu, old or young, has to perform a "puja" before the gods.

  From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky

• With the money which he had in hand he used to buy cheap tinsel wares from Calcutta before the puja holidays.

  Stories from Tagore | Rabindranath Tagore

• The Saraswati puja was performed with great éclat and the five rupees could easily have been spared.

  Stories from Tagore | Rabindranath Tagore

• My kinsman and myself were returning to Calcutta from our puja trip when we met the man in a train.

  The Hungry Stones And Other Stories | Rabindranath Tagore

• The large hall of worship formed one side of the puja mahal; on the other three sides were two-storied houses.

  The Poison Tree | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee